patientINFORM

patient INFORM is a free online service that provides patients and their carers with access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable, and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases. In patientINFORM, consumers have the ability to not only read the latest research, but also to find help interpreting that information and accessing additional materials.

Sponsored and coordinated by STM, patientINFORM is a collaborative effort by voluntary health organizations, medical societies, health information professionals, and scholarly and medical publishers. In development since 2003, it was launched in July 2005. During 2006, other VHOs and publishers, both in the USA and internationally, were invited to join the program.

 

By working with the VHOs’ patient information professionals, original research will be made accessible to patients in an appropriate context, making it easier to understand research findings. patientINFORM empowers healthcare consumers to have improved discussions with their physicians and make informed decisions about care.

 

www.patientinform.org


Coordinating Partner
  • International Association of STM Publishers
VHO Partners 
  • American Cancer Society
  • American Diabetes Association
  • American Heart Association
Publishing Partners
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science *
  • American Association for Cancer Research
  • American Cancer Society
  • American Diabetes Association
  • American Heart Association
  • American Physiological Association
  • American Roentgen Ray Society
  • American Society of Hematology
  • Annals of Internal Medicine (American College Of Physicians)
  • Blackwell Publishing *
  • BMJ Publishing Group Ltd *
  • Elsevier *
  • The Endocrine Society
  • Massachusetts Medical Society
  • Nature Publishing Group *
  • Oxford University Press *
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Society of Nuclear Medicine
  • Springer *
  • Taylor and Francis *
  • Thieme Publishing Group*
  • John Wiley & Sons, Inc. *
  • Wolters Kluwer Health *

*Member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM)


Collaborating Partners
  • Association of American Publishers/ Professional and Scholarly Division
  • CrossRef
  • HighWire Press
  • Welch Medical Library at The Johns Hopkins University